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by nojvek 3361 days ago
Are you saying 23&Me gives you a file with the full list of chromosome's ACGT data? I've always wanted that.

Also is prometheus and open source analyzer?
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berberous 3361 days ago
23&Me will let you download a text file with the ACGT data, but only for the SNPs that it has. 23&Me does not sequence your full genome, so the SNPs available are a small subset of your DNA.

Prometheus is not open-source (I think), but all it does is read various files with DNA data (like the 23&me export), and match it up with the information in SNPedia (a Wikipedia-like open repository of what we know about certain SNPs), and then exports it to a pretty HTML/JS web report for you that you can download and save.

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lawnchair_larry 3361 days ago
Is it possible to do client side? I'd rather download the db and match it locally than ship my genome to them.
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berberous 3361 days ago
Yes. The author pushes people to the web version since it's more up to date, easier to maintain, etc., but there's a local version, see:

http://snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease/Desktop http://snpedia.com/index.php/Promethease/privacy

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